Cold Case, Season 6

[Colonel Murillo, Commandant of the Pennsylvania Military Institute, has been called to the Philadelphia PD's offices for questioning.]

Lilly Rush:
Thank you for coming in, Mr. Murillo.

COL Murillo:
It's Colonel Murillo. I think I've earned that.

John Stillman:
You can have a seat.

Lilly Rush:
You have a problem with Cadet Butler enrolling at PMI?

COL Murillo:
What's this all about? [Looks at Stillman] Lieutenant?

John Stillman:
I believe the detective asked you a question.

COL Murillo:
What I think is irrelevant in view of what the courts have decided, now isn't it?

Lilly Rush:
It isn't if you allow a student to be assaulted on campus.

COL Murillo:
That's a bit presumptuous. Am I on the stand here?

Lilly Rush:
You knew Kate was attacked; you should have stopped it from going further.

COL Murillo:
What Cadet Keith Henderson told me was hearsay: I chose to go directly to the horse's mouth.

[A flashback scene occurs with Kate Butler reporting to COL Murillo's office; when asked if she was assaulted by an upperclassman in the barracks the previous night, she denies it, despite Murillo reminding her of the Honor Code, which forbids a cadet from lying.]

Lilly Rush:
So that's it? You just let her go?

COL Murillo:
What the hell would you have me do? The Honor Code is the backbone of the Institute. If she says it didn't happen, it didn't.

Lilly Rush:
She was trying to suck it up. To fit in with the male cadets.

COL Murillo:
Well, then. She made her choice, didn't she?